MakeIt  Memorable #1

Bod Dotson rights as if he is talking to you one on one about his immense experience in the field of story telling. When he is talking about mistakes you shouldn't make it sounds like he is telling us learned them the hard way. When he talks about comparing notes I bet that once he really did get into a situation where the different members of his team were all going in different directions with the same story and ended up being a problem in the later stages.

I felt one of the most important things I learned from pages 9-27 would be that ideas are always good. If you end up not using them they might help you spark up an idea for a story in the future. Another important technique would be the "non-question question" It allows an interviewee to open up and really answer the question you are driving at without the conscientiously thinking of an answer that will change the public's view.

I suppose the scripts are written like that so that we don't have to use words like "simultaneously" and "at the same time" in the script. Having the script written like that allows the reader to experience what it is like in video without having it in video or having any images to align with the story.

I viewed a story on thirty rock about a sting of abductions in the Cleveland area are being solved and how one mother is ready for closure on her daughters disappearance. It sets the scene by showing the reactions of the families and the public from when the 3 other missing girls in the area were brought home. It showed the area of Cleveland from a gps perspective and just some shots of the cities streets. It used foreshadowing by the us of the words. "all of this happiness and still one family hopes to find closure". Its sort of saying "good things happened in the previous shot. but there is still something wrong..." The conflict was when the mom was talking about how she sort of blamed herself for the incident. They had been arguing and she decided to move in with her uncle about 2 weeks after that she disappeared. Her mother filed a police report but no signs were ever discovered leading to her whereabouts. Character growth would be when talking about her sister. Her sister was also blaming herself for the situation. Her last word were angry words but she recently created a video with her younger siblings and it was made public by local news and television programs. It was telling their big sister to come home. Resolution was not found for they are still unsure of the girls whereabouts. But since they have not found her remains, it is still possible (though there is a low chance) that she could be alive and being held against her will.